Jack Recider

It was a huge success for all eight of them.

Each of them brought home more money than they've ever made in their whole lives and got home safely.

They got away with it.

And when they got together the next day and counted their money, they had a total of $2,800,000.

They stole $2.8 million from banks all across New York.

And if you look at that dollar amount alone that was stolen, this is one of the largest bank robberies ever in the history of New York City, all done by eight hustlers with big dreams.

For context, the biggest bank robbery in New York was for almost $6 million, the Lufthansa heist at JFK Airport, a case so big Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro made a movie about it called Goodfellas.

This was a massive success for them.

They started partying and celebrating.

And you know, when you're looking at $2.8 million like that, it starts to change you.

You start thinking, should we just take this money for ourselves and disappear?

Or give the bosses cut and look for another job in the future?

We're not exactly sure how the split happened from this heist.

I suspect that they sent the boss his half of the money.

Alberto, of course, wanted to be clever.

He was starting to get nervous about all this money around.

So he packaged up $800,000 so he could stash it somewhere safe.

No, not in New York.

That would be too close to home.

He wanted to be more clever than that.